This is the Blog of Zane Egginton.

Just started a blog for my FilmCAD Class. If your an old student by all means pop on over for a look. http://filmcad.wordpress.com. Eventually there’ll be info about e-onsoftwares Vue (a software package we use for doing all our 3d Visualisations). Links to Student work, examples of work out there in …

Late last year my lovely wife replaced my iPod touch she lost a year earlier. Wahoo. So now that 2011 has kicked off I figured I better get my digital life organised. I’ve spent a bit of time looking for apps that will help organise everything in the best possible …

I thought I’d share this with you all. This is an example of a easy technique to create a colour palette for what ever project you happen to be working on (web pages, print jobs, logos, etc). The image below kinda speaks for itself but basically find an image you …

Handed over all the graded footage of Last Flight (short film set on Mars) yesterday. When I agreed to grade this I was thinking it would be easy, just put a red wash over it right? Boy was I wrong! As it’s been shot in lots of locations all over …

After completing a real site I decided to create something a bit more surreal. [update] I wasn’t that happy with the post processed lens blur in my original version of this image so I re-rendered it with a raytraced DoF Blur. I also spent a bit more time in photoshop creating …

For a while now I’ve had a portfolio on Cornucopia. The other day I thought I’d throw an image up there of a project I’ve been working on. In my opinion it’s not the most impressive work I’ve done however the people that run the site thought otherwise and selected …

I travelled to Greece once by accident about 10 years ago, the thing that really struck me was the old construction yards. Full of partially built structures, used rock, debris, etc. All just sitting out in the open, in the elements. I think those that spent their time in these …

The makers of Vue (e-on software) have put my “Untitled Beach” image up as their picture of the day! Very stoked. You can see it here. Over the last week or so I’ve been working on another image for a Cornucopia 3d image comp “The Glory of Greece”. I used …

I spent Friday & Saturday last week at Creative tech, an Apple-centric conference held @ AUT here in Auckland. I’d been asked to be part of a panel of apple users to talk about how we use apples in our professions as an event to wrap up the conference. First …